Broward county has a population larger than Rhode Island.
Partisan election officials can make it harder to count all votes in a timely manner by underfunding and understaffing certain areas. They then use this delay as an excuse to not count those votes at all.
Partisan election officials can make it harder to count all votes in a timely manner by underfunding and understaffing certain areas. They then use this delay as an excuse to not count those votes at all.
They deliberately underfund certain areas so that they don't have to count all of the votes from there. #VoterSupression don't end at arbitrary deregistration, multi-hour long lineups, and broken voting machines.
These are not "new votes". They are not being "found". The actual vote total is the same as it was on election day, they just weren't included in the original numbers because of underfunding that made it impossible to count them in a timely manner.
In countries with public funding for elections, every single vote ultimately gets counted, because they need accurate totals to determine funding. In the United States, it's not unusual for absentee/provisional/mailed/military ballots to never be counted at all.
Post-election partisan wrangling in the US is a feature, not a bug. The US does not have independent non-partisan electoral commissions that set riding boundaries and ensure that all jurisdictions have adequate resources both before and after the election.
Rules implemented under the guise of "fairness" and "integrity" can be used to suppress the vote in certain areas where those running the election expect less support. Here, a former Florida Congressman finds his ballot has been rejected.
